Archive for October 2007

Blow/Job

Posted to Stories on the topic of Work on 22 October 2007, with no comments so far.

by Alexander—Age 25—Brooklyn, NY
The nice thing about flirting with the checkout girl at the movie rental store is that, so long as you don’t return your movies on time, she’ll call you. And she did. And a month or so later we were in love, I was working next door at the take-out pizza place, […]

Antics

Posted to Stories on the topic of Work on 20 October 2007, with 5 comments so far.

by Nancy—Age 34—Brecksville, OH
My job? High school English teacher. Specifically, I teach regular and honors tenth-grade English, plus one section of creative writing. Most of us have survived high school, and we know what English teachers do—they assign essays, make kids read out loud, lecture endlessly about blah blah blah stuff, stuff like Transcendentalism, and […]

Jewelry

Posted to Stories on the topic of Work on 18 October 2007, with 1 comment so far.

by Windy—Age 37—Phoenix, AZ
As I packed my new scarf and gloves for this week’s trip to New York I thought back to how I got here. Ten years ago I got a job at Nordstrom in the jewelry department. I lived in Spokane, Washington, five hours away from Seattle and the only major city […]

Fast

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 16 October 2007, with 3 comments so far.

by Stephanie—Age 34— Miami, FL
It was like this; it was fast. There was a marriage, a birth, a divorce and a move. Then, before I knew anything, I was a Miamian, living the single parent/child life—day care until six, quality-time-packed weekends. My mother dated half-heartedly, deftly keeping me away from all potential dads.
Eventually, she […]